... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Video News Releases . ... This is the cover for Lichtmond 2: Universe of Light, a new multimedia release from German recording artists Lichtmond. ... Parsons met Lichtmond during a visit to ESO's site at Paranal, Chile, and the special edition of Lichtmond 2: Universe of Light contains a short movie of the ESO and ALMA sites, made using stunning footage and images from the ESO archives. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... champ name : Source ID in the format explained in the Definitions section. ra : RA in decimal degrees. ... pos_error : Source count extraction radius in arcseconds. netB : net counts in B-band. See Definitions section. error_netB : error of net counts in B-band. see Definitions section. netS : S-band net counts, defined analogously to netB . ... See Definitions section. C21 : X-ray color. ... C32 : X-ray color. See Definitions section. rateB : B-band count rate in ksec. ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

Data from the 15 square degree region centered on l = 192 , b = -2 covered by McIntyre et al. 2015 and described in that paper. The data is split into low and high velocity cubes following the two frequency bands of the Mock spectrometers. Low velocity cube . High velocity cube . ... All cubes are 4 4 , aligned in RA and Dec, and cover -2630 19655 km/s. Cube centers are in RA and Dec (J2000), with Galactic coordinates given for reference. ... J0513+21 (l=183 b=-11) - 853 MB . ...

A joule expended continuously for one second is a watt, which means a liter of water, converted to energy could power a 1 watt light bulb for 9 • 1016 seconds, or 2.5 • 1013 hours. ... What would happen if you turned all those light bulbs on for two and a half hours? ... One joule is equal to about four food calories. ... Minding Your Joules . ... Energy is given in joules and not many kids know what a joule is. ... one estimate gives the energy yield of the Big Bang as 10 68 joules . ...

... XMM-Newton First Light: X-Rays From The LMC . ... Credit: XMM Project , ESA Explanation: Recently the European Space Agency released this and other spectacular "first light" pictures from its new orbiting x-ray observatory , christened XMM-Newton . ... The picture is a false-colour one in which low energy x-rays are translated to red, medium energy to green, and high energy to blue. ... Publications with keywords: LMC - XMM-Newton - X-ray . Publications with words: LMC - XMM-Newton - X-ray . ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... 2000 February 11 . XMM-Newton First Light: X-Rays From The LMC . ... Explanation: Recently the European Space Agency released this and other spectacular "first light" pictures from its new orbiting x-ray observatory , christened XMM-Newton . ... The picture is a false-colour one in which low energy x-rays are translated to red, medium energy to green, and high energy to blue. ... About APOD | ...

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

FOR RELEASE: 9:00 a.m. PDT, June 9, 1998 . ... Reports are being presented by Dr. Patricia A. Henning and Mr. Andrew J. Rivers, of the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, NM, to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, California. Henning and Rivers represent two international teams of astronomers from the University of New Mexico and Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. ... The Parkes survey has uncovered 103 galaxies, only 28 of which were mapped before. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

New images are being released to celebrate the International Year of Light 2015. ... M51: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; SNR0519-69.0: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes; Optical: NASA/STScI; MSH 11-62: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane et al; Optical: DSS; Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Cygnus A: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/AUI/VLA; RCW 86: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/D.Castro et al, Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/CTIO ...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

... Изысканный и ни с чем не сравнимый стиль прекрасной французской художницы Леонор Фини! ... Литография "Аэротика-II" (Aerotics-II) на муаровой бумаге. Леонор Фини (Leonor Fini). Франция, 1969 год. ... Подпись автора от руки в правом нижнем углу - Leonor Fini. ...

EMERGENCY ENCLOSURE CLOSING . ... In general, emergency systems/procedures have been put in place for electrical power failure and/or for enclosure controller/ motor drive failure. ... In the event the emergency generator fails to start or generate power, use procedure 3.0 for motor drive/controller failure except, you will need to plug the 2 winches into the portable Kubota generator which is stored in the garage. ... AT EACH WINCH, PULL BACK THE HUB DRIVE TO RELEASE THE CABLE DRUM. ...